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Viewsonic Android ViewPad 7 tablet heading to the UK for £350

August 31st, 2010 12:32pm 1 comment

Viewsonic Android ViewPad 7 tablet heading to the UK for £350

Viewsonic has grabbed a megaphone, jumped up on its soapbox made from old monitors and barked out the news to the denizens of Blighty, “Hear Ye! The ViewPad 7 is coming your way!”

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Gmail Priority inbox promises to automatically prioritise your email

August 31st, 2010 10:26am 1 comment

Gmail Priority inbox promises to automatically prioritise your email

If, like us, your inbox is a hideous, sprawling, disorganised mess stuffed full of assorted emails of wildly varying importance, then hope may be at hand courtesy of  Google’s new Priority inbox system.

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Arcade Fire’s music video delivers jaw-dropping HTML5 interactivity

August 31st, 2010 9:30am No comments

Arcade Fire's interactive HTML5 music video gets jaws dropping

We’re a pretty hard-nosed, cynical bunch here at Wirefresh, but Arcade Fire’s Google Maps interactive video mash-up got a few jaws dropping around the office.

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Olympus rumours: black E-P2 compact kit, new lenses and E-5 dSLR coming up

August 30th, 2010 2:31pm No comments

Olympus rumours: black E-P2 compact=

Currently sizzling away on the 43rumors site are some hot rumours of a mini-flurry of new Olympus camera-related launches coming up.

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Samsung shifts one million Galaxy S Android smartphones in the US

August 30th, 2010 10:30am No comments

Samsung shifts one million Galaxy S Android smartphones in the US

Samsung has announced that consumers are feeling the love for their Android Galaxy S smartphones in a big way, with the company shifting no less than one million of ‘em since July 15th.
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Amazon Kindle arrives in UK – first impressions, hands on report

August 28th, 2010 1:09pm No comments

Kindle UK arrives - first impressions, hands on reportOne of our readers managed to collect his Amazon Kindle 3G today, and has kindly forwarded his first impressions of the innovative eBook reader.

We’re hoping to get our hands on the device later and post up some photos and our own impressions, but here’s ‘Memespring’s’ hands on report:

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Panasonic Lumix LX5 vs Canon Powershot S95 – low light, size comparisons and other questions

August 28th, 2010 10:30am 29 comments

Panasonic Lumix LX5 vs Canon Powershot S95 - your questions answered

Our recent article comparing the new Panasonic Lumix LX5 and Canon Powershot S95 high end cameras has resulted in us getting a fair bit of email, so we thought we’d post a follow up article answering some of the points raised.

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Orange HTC Desire – Froyo delayed until mid-Sept, less junk included

August 27th, 2010 6:09pm No comments

Orange HTC Desire - Froyo update delayed until mid-September

HTC Desire owners on the UK Orange network are likely to be disappointed at the news that they’re not going to get the eagerly anticipated Android OS update until the middle of September.

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Open source Diaspora site aims to right Facebook’s social networking wrongs

August 27th, 2010 2:30pm 1 comment

Open source Diaspora social network aims to right Facebook's wrongsDiaspora, an open source open alternative to the monstrously popular social networking site Facebook is set to launch on 15th September.

Describing itself as a “privacy-aware, personally-controlled, do it all, open source social network”, the Diaspora project has been driven by four impossibly fresh-faced New York students – three computer scientists and a mathematician – who have so far raised $200,000 (£140,000) in funding.

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Garmin touchscreen Edge 800 GPS for cyclists “rocks”

August 27th, 2010 11:31am No comments

Garmin touchscreen Edge 800 GPS for cyclists looks a winner

Back in the day, cyclists keen to keep a record of their travels had to employ a map for directions and listen to the relentless click of a metal wheel clip nudging against a mechanical device for recording the miles travelled, but Garmin’s touchscreen Edge 800 cycling GPS unit cuts a far more modern dash.

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Google GMail users make one million calls in 24 hours

August 27th, 2010 9:15am 1 comment

Google GMail call feature: one million calls in 24 hours

We’re still cruelly starved of this feature over here in Blighty, but Google is reporting that their new integrated Gmail calling feature has proved an almighty hit in the US.

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Google Realtime Search serves up streaming social networking search results

August 26th, 2010 7:45pm No comments

Google Realtime Search serves up streaming spcial networking updates

Google has launched its new Realtime Search feature, which serves up real-time, live search results from a wide set of sources.

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Canon EOS 60D dSLR offers fold out screen and HD video

August 26th, 2010 12:19pm 2 comments

Canon EOS 60D dSLR offers fold out screen and HD video

Canon has announced their  new Canon EOS 60D dSLR, a mid-priced camera offering an 18megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor and articulated LCD display.

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Acer LumiRead eBook reader set for October Europe release

August 26th, 2010 10:59am No comments

Acer LumiRead eBook reader set for October Europe release

With Amazon’s Kindle eReader proving a hugely desirable item, it’s not surprising that other manufacturers are keen to bag themselves some of the action, and charging over the horizon at a rate of knots is Acer’s LumiRead eBook reader.

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Facebook Places: privacy concerns and previous dodgy practices detailed

August 26th, 2010 9:45am 1 comment

Facebook Places: privacy concerns and previous dodgy practices detailed

With the newly announced Facebook Places already sending the eyebrows of privacy campaigners arcing skywards, a nifty new infographic has appeared highlighting Facebook’s less than illustrious track record on privacy.

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